Nova Pioneer is looking for a passionate and superstar Talent/ HR Assistant to offer support with the administration of day-to-day operations of the HR functions and duties. This is an entry-level role position with an expectation to have the successful candidate start mid January or early February 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a hybrid environment (remote and in-person)and to help create a transformative brand with the future of Africa’s youth at stake.
About Novapioneer
Imagine a world in which every young person across Africa attends a school that truly sets them up for success in the 21st century. A school that cares about individual students and allows them to explore the world around them. A school that focuses more on developing skills than on memorizing content. At Nova Pioneer, we have done more than just imagine this future, we are bringing it to life. Nova Pioneer is a Pan-African, independent network of schools offering high quality, accessible education from pre-primary through secondary school. Nova Pioneer uses a unique, inquiry-based learning approach that encourages students to ask “why” instead of telling them the “what”. It allows them to form their own thinking through exploration, investigation, and collaboration. Nova Pioneer currently has 16 schools in South Africa and Kenya with a vision to launch 100 schools and reach tens of thousands of students across the African continent in the next decade. To learn more visit www.novapioneer.com.
About The Role
As a Talent/HR Assistant, you are responsible for providing effective and efficient Talent and HR generalist administration aligned with organisational strategic goals. You will be responsible for assisting with day-to-day operations of the Talent and HR functions and duties particularly in recruitment, onboarding, customer service, administration, records management and HR compliance.
Working at Nova means:
- Fully embracing Nova’s values and beliefs and promoting them to students, teammates and parents
- Living the culture principles inside and outside of the school
- Working cohesively in a team, being respectful of each person’s contributions and style
- Maintaining positive, constructive and professional relationships with students, their families, and teammates
- Adapting to change frequently and embracing the gift of feedback
How will your day to day at Nova look like?
General Talent/HR Activities:
- Maintain up-to-date records of employee status, benefits, certification, job function, terms
of employment, and tenure in our HR system, BambooHR.
- Create and maintain employee files both electronic and physical files
- Man the Talent email and respond to queries, adhoc tasks from teammates and external providers in a timely and professional manner
- Protect the organization’s value by keeping sensitive teammate information and matters
strictly confidential.
- Support hiring managers in recruitment administration such as scheduling interviews, carrying out reference checks, marking and assessing assessments
- Support in creating physical and electronic files for joiners and ensuring the onboarding starter pack is completed in time for actual onboarding
- Lead the administration of the referral bonus scheme as part of the recruitment process
- Support in facilitating sessions during onboarding of new joiners into the organisation
- Support in revamping the back end processes of our recruitment system, JazzHR to ensure quality hiring standards
About You
Skills and Qualifications required:
- A Diploma/ Bachelor’s degree in a Business related course, Psychology, Sociology, and Human Resources Management
- You have at least 1 year working experience in a busy startup or innovative organization that cares deeply about people development. Previous experience in a school would be great but not compulsory
- You have experience with HR administration, recruitment and management of employee data
- You firmly believe that HR should serve and support employees with a sincere care for their professional happiness and wellbeing
- You love people and think, eat, sleep, dream people
- You would like to grow with the organisation and are truly connected to our mission in developing leaders and innovators
- You are meticulous with good attention to detail
- You are eager to learn best-practice in HR and you thrive through coaching on the job
- You are a strong communicator with good listening skills
- You love working in a team of driven and passionate individuals who are committed to growth
- You are resilient and diligent to follow through with set targets and goals
- You have grit and you are willing to bring your best self everyday to work
- You are self disciplined and do not require micro managing to get the job done
- You are personable and friendly – creating an aura of trust in a remote work setting
- You have exposure to Business or HR training. This is preferred but not compulsory as passion, skills and experience are the elements that will make you successful in this role
- Our culture resonates deeply with your values- and in particular, you are excited to challenge yourself by taking risks and getting more feedback than you’ve ever gotten before
